Functional descriptions : theory in practice /
This volume focuses on the relation between theory and description by examining aspects of transitivity in different languages. Transitivity or case grammar, to use the popular term has always occupied a centre-stage position in linguistics, not least because of its supposedly privileged relation to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©1996.
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Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 121. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Theories, maps, and descriptions / Davis Butt
- On grammar and grammatics / M.A.K. Halliday
- On the idea of theory-neutral descriptions / Christian Matthiessen and Christopher Nesbitt
- Ditransitivity and possession / Kristin Davidse
- So grammarians haven't the faintest idea : reconciling lexis-oriented and grammar-oriented approaches to language / Gordon H. Tucker
- The semantics of get-passives / Angela Downing
- Causation in Dutch and French : interpersonal aspects / Liesbeth Degand
- Process types in Finnish / Susanna Shore
- The "complement" in Chinese grammar / Edward McDonald
- Pitjantjatjara processes : an Australian experiential grammar / David Rose
- Metalinguistic diversity : the case from case / J.R. Martin.